Research funding:
The group would like to thank the research councils, charities, industrial companies and the University of St Andrews for funding our research.
Recent research grants
- EPSRC CASE for new academics with industrial support from SASOL: “New fluorinated phosphines for carbonylation catalysis” .
- EPSRC “ Using hydrogen bonds to create new asymmetric catalysts”.
- The Leverhume Trust: “Quaternary selective hydroformylation of olefins”
- BP/EPSRC Industrial CASE award: “New stable and soluble methanol carbonylation catalysts”
- Chirotech/ DowPharma (and University of St Andrews) “Microwave accelerated syntheses of new chiral phosphines for asymmetric hydrogenation”
- EPSRC “High-throughput screening of diverse families of ligands for asymmetric catalysis”
- EPSRC “Activating organosilicon nucleophiles for catalytic C-C bond formation”.
- Chirotech / DOWPharma and EPSRC Industrial CASE award: “New applications for asymmetric hydroformylation in organic synthesis”
- EPSRC “Ru complexes of chiral tridentate ligands: new catalysts for the asymmetric hydrogenation of ketones and imines”.
- With Dr Marcia France as P. I.: American Chemical Society for Dr. Marcia France to carry out collaborative research (“Novel nitrogen ligands for asymmetric Catalysis” Grant held by Washington and Lee University.
- With other catalysis staff in St Andrews: European Union, IDECAT Network of excellence.
- We also acknowledge contributions to our research from DSM fine Chemicals and Johnson Matthey, and thank CEM a prize for the best contribution to the synthetic pages database in 2006.
We also thank the Royal Society of Chemistry for recognising the groups research by awarding MLC the 2005/6 Meldola Prize for most promising investigations by a British Chemist under age 32 and the 2010 Hickinbottom award for contributions to organic chemistry from a researcher under the age of 35.
